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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Best iPad Apps for ESL Teachers and Students- Overview

Best Ipad Apps for ESL teachers and Students:

*I will update this list weekly, so please bookmark or favorite this post so you can keep up with the best apps for ESL/Language teachers. The Apps in purple are meant primarily for student use but can be used by teachers as well.

Some apps have detailed descriptions if you click the name of the app. Some just have a link to the download. Some apps are similar to others, so you can find which one you like best.

Evernote - so many great uses for this organization app. Click to find out more.

Here is a presentation about iPad apps that I gave at the CELEA annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 29th, 2012. You'll have to click through a few slides before you get to the list of apps. They are in the Green Bubbles. Also, at the end you'll see 10 apps you can use next week.

Do you have any apps to add? Please comment and let me know about any that you use regularly and how you use them!

Great! I can and will use it in my basic writing class - especially staring with the episode, How to Write a Paragraph, using chocholate is a great metaphor... congratulations on the great program. I love it!

I've used Heads Up! (cost was $1.99 I think, but well worth the price!) I've bought extra "packs" of cards (for $0.99 each). This is a vocabulary builder and lots of fun. Some of the categories are like charades, where the person has to act out the word for the team. For other categories, students describe what the item is.

I've also used a free Charades! game that is all acting out. Traditional games like Wheel of Fortune and Trivial Pursuit could be used depending on level of the students.

True or False is an easy general knowledge game that involves reading a question and answering true or false to move through levels.

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